People use Spiceworks for different things and while it is a great product it does not meet everyones needs. Spiceworks is not afraid to allow competing products to advertise with them. If ServiceDesk is a better fit for you try it, if not Spiceworks is still free because they help pay the bills.

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People use Spiceworks for different things and while it is a great product it does not meet everyones needs. Spiceworks is not afraid to allow competing products to advertise with them. If ServiceDesk is a better fit for you try it, if not Spiceworks is still free because they help pay the bills.

If they want to buy the ad space then I'm all for it. If SW started filtering ads then there'd be an uproar here, and also possible legal ramifications for monopolies. The legal part I'm not sure on, but it sounds possible.

you will see adverts on the right hand side. Gotta say, it did make me laugh the first time I saw it, but I think it says a lot about SpiceWorks if they are willing to let a direct competitor advertise on their site.

As others said not everyone uses every aspect of SW, and some people want more from certain areas.

I use LevelPlatforms for my monitoring, so i don't bother with the alert feature. But since we're a medium sized business, it's perfect for Ticketing and Inventory purposes.

I also tinker with Splunk, the reporting in that is a richer, but it's much harder to use, and i for someone my size it's probably more trouble than it's worth, but companies (and needs) grow so it's good to be able to see my options and keep them in mind.

Regardless of who you use, the community around SW is top notch, and i know nobody here would ever replace it outright with a service like expertsexchange.com

In the beginning, there was the Spiceworks application. The germ of the community existed in the form of Feature Requests. That grew into a whole community separate from the application, and now the bulk of questions and discussions on here are about IT as a whole, rather than just about Spiceworks.

Just over a year ago, we started allowing people to join the community without having installed Spiceworks first. We recognized that there were some people for whom Spiceworks wasn't a great fit, but who still wanted to participate in the community.

Now that we have the RFQ process built, we'll start allowing people to login just to that portion if they don't need the rest of the community or the application. Of course we hope they'll check out the other aspects, but the reality is that not everyone will need everything that we offer.

The bottom line is we really do want to be "Everything IT", as our tagline says. To that end, we want the community to be a place where you can talk about all the options available to you for all the parts of your IT job. And if products that are in the same space as some of the things we offer, that is totally ok - we want to help you guys to find the best way of doing your jobs, and be part of your IT daily function in the way that works for you.

It's not really a competing product. SpiceWorks is a marketing firm, ME SD is their customer. SW makes their money selling ads, not selling software. ME SD makes money selling software, not ads. They don't compete in the way that you are imagining.

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